William Azaroff

I’m the VP of Community Investment at Vancity, a values-based financial co-operative serving the needs of its half-million member-owners and their communities. I lead a team that delivers on our Good Money™ brand by developing opportunities with progressive businesses, not-for-profits, social enterprises and co-operatives working towards a more vibrant, sustainable and inclusive local economy.

I was elected to the Board of Modo, a car-sharing co-operative offering 400 cars, trucks, vans, hybrids and EVs to a growing membership of 13,000 in Metro Vancouver and Victoria. I am proud to be Chair of the Board of an organization that is estimated to remove 9-13 private vehicles from our roads with every new Modo car we add.

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In my role at Vancity, I think a lot about an inclusive, sustainable and also vibrant local economy. And I am a hypocrite. Oh, I’m not alone, all my colleagues and peers are hypocrites too. We support local businesses. Especially businesses that create a local food economy, hire people with barriers to employment, support new Canadians as they settle so they can be productive and happy in their new country, help companies trying to reduce the carbon emissions they put into the environment and help people reduce the carbons they emit in their lives.

A mountainous landscape is made up of layers upon layers of rock, forming stratification patterns over millennia and millennia. The layers on the bottom are, obviously, the first to be laid down, and one can track the history of the area through millions of years by studying the layers.